Gingerbread Man' Lyrics

I been faced with oppression

On all sides of me

Is it illusion

Or my reality

Face to face

With the mirror

only I can see

The fork in back

They want a piece me

Like I’m made out of

Clay

I break easily

And the cracks on my skin

Wont mend peacefully

Addicted to trends

That have no merit

Hashtags ain’t enough

For your friends

They need to bear it

Walk a mile in my shoes

I been profiled by the cops

And the troops

I been handcuffed

Just for hanging with the crew

Brutalized my face

And it never made the news

The burden is not your own

For you carry

You are not alone

Don’t you worry

The burden is not your own

For you carry

You are not alone

I been kicked on

I been spit on

I been called nigger

In the Only morn

This a little dark

but I’m being honest

Took all the patience in the world

not to be violent

They say

You pretty cute for a dark girl

we never bat a eye in this cruel world

I had to realize what that did to me

Chose a fairer skin girl cause they deemed pretty

& The Tv got a hold

Of my childhood

Washed the brain

With the codes

still unpacking

As the times make us old

Hidden messages

manifest in your soul

The burden is not your own

For you carry

You are not alone

Don’t you worry

The burden is not your own

For you carry